Graphic dilemma.

[Big Dave]

Sally has been laying out KR lately and doing a great job and I've been getting the covers and the glory jobs.

So I have to inset the picture of the 'roost' on the cover but the way it crops I have to delete the great 'rack' in the background. How sad's that!

It's attention to detail that sets me apa rt.

[Clivoris]

It's attention to detail that sets me apa rt.

That, and the way your knuckles drag on the ground.:D

[chanceyy]

missed the rack on the first glance .. was busy looking at the bikes ..




ohh yeah not that a rack does it for me :innocent: :dodge:

so crop it :D

[Lias]

I muist be getting old and blind cos I'm really struggling to see any decent rack.

WTB high res version :innocent:

[riffer]

Speaking of attention to detail I can't help but notice you've finally upgraded the mac and operating system!

Are you using Version Cue workflow? If not, turn Version Cue off - you'll clean up a lot of system resources by doing so. Watch out also if you're using 10.4.7 in a networked environment involving a Windows Server - there's a couple of bugs there that will cause you to completely destroy a .PSD while saving it.

Are you using CS2? There's a number of cool new features of CS2 which we've found fantastic for our work - number 1 would have to be Smart Objects - you can cut and paste artwork from InDesign and Illustrator and it comes in as a Smart Object - which can be scaled, rotated, stretched etc, and it retains its vector information - and then gets rendered out at 300ppi when you save as a tiff.

Another, if you're using InDesign for Layout (and you should be) is the ability to add .PSD files and manipulate the visibility of the layers. You can also set a shadow layer to multiply and have it work over vector art in InDesign.

We do a lot of work for Telecom and Toyota and use these techniques heaps.

[Clivoris]

Speaking of attention to detail I can't help but notice you've finally upgraded the mac and operating system!

Are you using Version Cue workflow? If not, turn Version Cue off - you'll clean up a lot of system resources by doing so. Watch out also if you're using 10.4.7 in a networked environment involving a Windows Server - there's a couple of bugs there that will cause you to completely destroy a .PSD while saving it.

Are you using CS2? There's a number of cool new features of CS2 which we've found fantastic for our work - number 1 would have to be Smart Objects - you can cut and paste artwork from InDesign and Illustrator and it comes in as a Smart Object - which can be scaled, rotated, stretched etc, and it retains its vector information - and then gets rendered out at 300ppi when you save as a tiff.

Another, if you're using InDesign for Layout (and you should be) is the ability to add .PSD files and manipulate the visibility of the layers. You can also set a shadow layer to multiply and have it work over vector art in InDesign.

We do a lot of work for Telecom and Toyota and use these techniques heaps.

:doh: We all just upgraded from crayons to felts so that was all gibberish to me.

[Big Dave]

Speaking of attention to detail I can't help but notice you've finally upgraded the mac and operating system!

6 months ago. all good.

Are you using Version Cue workflow? If not, turn Version Cue off - you'll clean up a lot of system resources by doing so. Watch out also if you're using 10.4.7 in a networked environment involving a Windows Server - there's a couple of bugs there that will cause you to completely destroy a .PSD while saving it.

Nah - not using version cue. Network is all macs and older OS

Are you using CS2? There's a number of cool new features of CS2 which we've found fantastic for our work - number 1 would have to be Smart Objects - you can cut and paste artwork from InDesign and Illustrator and it comes in as a Smart Object - which can be scaled, rotated, stretched etc, and it retains its vector information - and then gets rendered out at 300ppi when you save as a tiff.

Another, if you're using InDesign for Layout (and you should be) is the ability to add .PSD files and manipulate the visibility of the layers. You can also set a shadow layer to multiply and have it work over vector art in InDesign.

Yep - up with all that thanks. Last 3 KR covers have been indesign lays.

We do a lot of work for Telecom and Toyota and use these techniques heaps.

cheers!

[scumdog]

I say crock the rap...crap the rock... crack the rop...you know what I mean.

It's not like it's a really good one eh?

[xwhatsit]

Do you mean the girl in pink? Bleugh. Bit of a fat arse, no? In fact, is it not true that she is in fact lacking a waist entirely? Maybe because it's so low resolution, but surely that can't be the rack you speak of?

[Karma]

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[Big Dave]

hey! - boobies is boobies. Mongo like big.

So turn it into this we doesss:
I did screen shots of how it goes together if anyone is interested.
This is a draft to go to the Ed.

[xwhatsit]

*sigh* when I used to read Downbeat regularly it used to seem such a peachy job to work at a magazine... out to the Village Vanguard and Birdland every night to hear Wynton play... or in your case, thrashing the latest bikes around. But I'm sure it's not as easy as that, I'm sure you do a lot of hard and tough work. Such as how to crop a photo so you can squeeze some tits into it...

[Big Dave]

*sigh* Such as how to crop a photo so you can squeeze some tits into it...

It's a calling.

[ceebie13]

Just how many Mac monkeys are there here on KB? Me being one of them. (OSX 10.4.8 plus the usual graphics apps.):rockon:

[Crisis management]

Man, I must be getting slow, or old, or both. I spent 5 minutes looking for the deer in the bushes.
I need a terminology upgrade.

[Big Dave]

Just how many Mac monkeys are there here on KB? Me being one of them. (OSX 10.4.8 plus the usual graphics apps.):rockon:

Since 1987 - huh almost 20 years.
What are you making?

[riffer]

Just how many Mac monkeys are there here on KB? Me being one of them. (OSX 10.4.8 plus the usual graphics apps.):rockon:


Too bloody many. I've been doing this for 22 years, starting out as a typographer/designer at Government Print in 1984.

Now I lead a team of mac operators.

[Bytor]

Yep since 1985!! Just started using Indesign but prefer Quark as that is what I used in the UK - infact everyone uses Quark in the UK. Started off on CS10 board and Rotring pens doing 'proper' artwork:love:

Hey Dave, since when has KB become just a dirt bike mag? Needs a road bike on the cover as well

[Big Dave]

Hey Dave, since when has KB become just a dirt bike mag? Needs a road bike on the cover as well

Talk to the publisher - I've wanted the harley for the last two. I'm on it!

In his defence - the 6 day is the biggest event in 2 wheeled sport in NZ in the last month?

And we do cover everything. It's a foot thick lately.

[Clivoris]

In his defence - the 6 day is the biggest event in 2 wheeled sport in NZ in the last month?

You wouldn't know it from the bloody tv coverage. Or have I missed something?

[Big Dave]

You wouldn't know it from the bloody tv coverage. Or have I missed something?


$10 at your news stand.:yes:

[F5 Dave]

To be honest I’ve been getting a little bored of the Mag lately (no offence, don’t know why, maybe too many in a row)

but that ISDE picture makes me want to get out in the bush, that is a great pic, I’d buy that copy if I wasn’t already subscribed. I think the MX one is in the way, crop it all, esp the elderly woman in the sumo suit.

[Big Dave]

To be honest I’ve been getting a little bored of the Mag lately (no offence, don’t know why, maybe too many in a row)



What would you like to see?

[FlangMasterJ]

I'd like to see more alot more shootouts and alot more Supermoto.

[Karma]

I want more naked chicks... and personals as well... fit biker chicks that like slighty (quite a bit) overweight pommy bikers :D

[Big Dave]

finished job:

[F5 Dave]

Dunno, maybe I’m in that stage of life. Been starting to buy Motorcycle Mechanics. Always read PB (but that was piffle for years, became a habit though) But I guess a lot of NZ bikers are aging & minds start to wander back to the days of RZ350s or whatever.

The race reports bore me, but there is obviously a need & desire for a local input & the mag is not aimed just for me.

Maybe there are not many technical features. How this works, how to mod that. Has to be on a decent level. Robert Taylor had a couple of articles a way back I vaguely remember, thought were ok.

Got a bit interested in the GasGas 200 long termer as I have one, but that was so slack as it seemed he never rode the thing, or at least never tested any mods.